Monthly Archive for January, 2012

: January, 2012

Study after study is shedding light on the perils of dropping out of high school. Besides not being able to make a reasonable living, own your own home, and have a comfortable retirement, you also may never be able to find time to get married. It is projected that within one or two years, less than half of the U.S. adult population will be married. This fact has social implications. The steady decrease in marriage rates is not only changing family values but it is contributing to the family’s economic inequality. If you do nothing else as a parent make sure your child finishes high school. This article offers other suggestions to keep families out of poverty. …

It takes a whole team to help manage a child who has weight loss surgery. Whoever said, “Weight loss surgery is a quick fix” truly never had weight loss surgery or worked with my patients. There is nothing quick about it. Obesity is a disease and once you have it, losing the weight is the easy part, managing that loss is a life long journey. This article offers suggestions to help the patient who is morbidly obese as well as their family. …

People everywhere dress, talk, laugh, play, and engage, all in an effort to get the attention they need. Babies flirt by flashing a smile or giving direct eye contact. However, when couples get married, sexual flirting is not advised. Sexual flirting is different from the normal, playful flirting the majority of people engage in. Is your spouse flirting? Is it destroying your relationship? This article offers helpful insights and suggestions. …

This article can be helpful if couples sit down, talk together and identify their style. Don’t blame any one person, as a style is created by the couple’s interaction. In a sense, you are both actors playing your part. If you can be candid with one another to re-create your part, you can save your marriage before you contemplate divorce. …

Empowering women, daughters, or anyone doesn’t mean you become their best friend. No gender is more or less than the other, as we need both men and women. Empowering women doesn’t mean “de-powering” men. When you are someone who empowers others, you believe in encouraging, educating, and being a mentor. Empowerment like most things begins at home. This article offers suggestions and help. …

When one partner is unhappy with the frequency of sex in their marriage, the worst thing you can say is, “I’m going to leave and find it elsewhere.” The best thing you can do as a couple is to address the issue together. Go to the physician and counselor together. Intimacy and sex is the glue that holds a healthy marriage together, but it must include a verbal/emotional connection to enhance the symbolism. After all, meaningless sex is everywhere, hence its name. …

Almost every marriage that is struggling has a sexual component. When sex stops, one person is feeling rejected, and most likely they use sex to project that feeling on to their partner. Let’s stop this cycle in the New Year. Ladies, become the initiator in love-making for a healthier and happier 2012. …

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